NOWRA Board of Directors

2022/2023 NOWRA Board of Directors

The 16 person NOWRA Board of Directors is made up of the 4-person Executive Committee plus two members from each of the following six onsite industry categories: Academia, Designer/Engineer, Regulatory, Supplier/Manufacturer, Installer, and Service Provider. Board members are elected to serve 3-year terms. Terms begin December 1 of the year the board member is elected and concludes November 30of the end year.

Current NOWRA Board of Directors

Ex-Officio

Thomas (Tom) Groves (Executive Director)
NOWRA
P.O. Box 982
Westford, MA 01886
tgroves@nowra.org
978-496-1800

Executive Committee

Allison Blodig (President)
Engineered Systems Consultant
Retired
Ozawkie, KS
785-213-4771
Term: December 2022 - November 2024

Jim King (Secretary/Treasurer)
President
Eljen Corp.
90 Meadow Road
Windsor, CT 06095
jking@eljen.com
800-444-1359
Term: December 2022 - November 2024

Chris LeClair, R.E.H.S. (Vice-President)
Director, Land & Resource Mgmt.
Ottertail County, Minnesota
Government Services Center
540 West Fir Avenue
Fergus Falls, MN 65637
cleclair@co.ottertail.mn.us
218-998-8105
Term: December 2022 - November 2024

Sara Heger (Past-President)
Research Engineer & Adjunct Asst. Professor
U. of Minn. Water Resources Ctr.
173 McNeal Hall
1985 Buford Avenue
St. Paul, MN 55108
sheger@umn.edu
612-625-7243 (office)
Term: December 2022 - November 2024

Board of Directors

Kwame Agyare, P.E.
President
Agyare Engineering Services, Inc.
35640 Fremont Blvd, Ste 108
Fremont, CA 94536
agyare.eng@gmail.com
510-738-4258
Term: November 2023 - November 2025 (Appointed)

Kate Carney, P.E.
Owner
Church OWC, LLC.
P.O. Box 18796
Golden, CO 80402
kcarney@cowc.info
Office: 720-898-3434
Cell: 720-837-6397
Term: December 2020 - November 2023 (Designer/Engineer)

Chris Chapman
Owner
Show Me Soils
P.O. Box 73
St. Clair, MO 63077
chris@showmesoils.com
636-629-1788
Term: December 2021 - November 2024 (Service Provider)

Marcia Degen, Ph.D.
Environmental Technical Services Manager
Virginia Dept. of Health
Civic Mall 2nd Floor
1502 Williamson Road, SE.
Roanoke VA 24012
Marcia.degan@vdh.virginia.gov
804-387-1883
Term: December 2020 - November 2023 (Regulator)

Claude Goguen
Director of Outreach and Technical Education
National Precast Concrete Association
1320 City Center Drive, Suite 200
Carmel, IN 46032
cgoguen@precast.org
317-582-2328
Term: December 2021 - November 2024 (Supplier/Manufacturer)

Josh Gunia
Vice President
A Advanced Septic & Construction Services
2518 E Valley Hwy E,
Sumner, WA 98390
joshua@aadvancedservices.com
253-435-9999 (office)
253-579-6769 816-966-8885
Term: December 2021 - November 2024 (Installer)

Gary Hawkins, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Water Resource Management Specialist
Crop and Soil Science
University of Georgia
1420 Experiment Station Road
Watkinsville, GA 30677
ghawkins@uga.edu
706-542-7167
Term: December 2022 - November 2025 (Academic)

Anish Jantrania, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Texas A & M University
Dept. of Biological & Agricultural Engineering
201 Scoates Hall 2117 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-2117
ajantrania@tamu.edu
(254) 774-6014
Term: December 2020 - November 2023 (Academic)

Ed Schloss
Sales Manager
Jet, Inc.
70 Alpha Drive
Cleveland, OH 44143
eschloss@jetincorp.com
800-321-6960
Term: April 2022 - November 2023 (Supplier/Manufacturer)

Tricia Scott
Program Specialist
Onsite Wastewater Section
Nebraska Department of Environment and Energy
P.O. Box 98922
Lincoln, NE 68509-8922
tricia.scott@nebraska.gov
402-471-4372
Term: December 2021 - November 2024 (Regulator)

Jerry Stonebridge
Stonebridge Environmental, Inc.
Freeland, WA 98249
stonebrg@whidbey.com
360-331-6101
Term: December 2022 - November 2025 (Service Provider)

Robert Sweeney, MS, REHS
President
Environmental Management Systems, Inc.
40480 SE International Way, Suite B112
Milwaukie, OR 97222
bob@envmgtsys.com
503-353-9691
Term: December 2022 - November 2025 (Designer/Engineer)